SOC 101 Community College of Philadelphia Cards Gender Message Discussion Requirements: No outside resources – only the document that I will send you. No

SOC 101 Community College of Philadelphia Cards Gender Message Discussion Requirements:

No outside resources – only the document that I will send you.

No plagiarism

Good grammar- complete thoughts

Deep response- Good arguments

You are going to investigate gender messages in children’s greeting cards.

Look at the two sets of children’s birthday cards that are uploaded below. Then sociologically analyze these cards, making comparisons between the “girl” cards and “boy” cards. You should specifically mention all of the six cards in your paper. You should use at least 6 of the terms from chapter 8 listed below. Be sure to BOLD the terms!

Feminism
Sex
Sexuality
Gender
Hegemonic masculinity
Ideology
Gender roles
Patriarchy
Structural functionalism
Sex role theory
Sexism
Glass ceiling
Glass escalator

You need to write between two and three pages.

I attached the document so you can read chapter 8 where you can find all the words that you must use.

the images or cards that you must analize are below +
SOC 101
Introduction to Sociology
Chapter 8: Gender
Dr. Faye Allard
+ Content
◼
Defining:
◼ Sex
◼ Gender
◼ Sexuality
◼
Intersex people
◼
What is feminism?
◼
Theories of gender
1.
Structural functionalism and the
sex role theory
2.
Psycho analytic theory
3.
Conflict theory
◼
Gender inequality in the movies – a
study
◼
The Bechdel test
◼
Gender inequality at home:
◼ How unequal is unpaid labor?
◼ What is the worth of
unpaid
labor?
◼ How do we learn who “does what?”
◼
Gender inequality at work:
◼ Who works?
◼ Who earns what?
◼ Why is there a paradox between
educational achievement and pay?
◼ Glass ceilings and escalators
+ Sex and Gender: What Influences
What?
+ Defining Sex
◼ Sex refers to
the biological
differences that distinguish
males and females.
◼ What are
those biological
differences?
◼ Essentialism and
biological
determinism state that social
behavior is explained by
biology and not culture
◼ Think nature not nurture
◼ But is it
that easy?
◼ How do
we define sex on a
day to day basis?
◼ Think of
someone you know,
but not that well.
◼ Is that
person a man or a
woman?
◼ How
do you know?
◼ Have
you seen their genitals or
seen a report on their DNA?
◼ So what are we really relying
on here to signal sex?
+ Defining Gender: What Does It Take to
Be a Woman (or a Man)?
◼
◼
Gender is a social construct that consists
of a set of social arrangements that are
built around sex.
◼ DISCUSSION QUESTIONS:
Gender roles are sets of behavioral norms ◼ Were you ever told that a
assumed to accompany one’s status as a
specific behavior wasn’t
male or female.
appropriate because you
◼ Evidence shows that gender roles have
are a boy or a girl?
more to do with social status than
biology.
◼ Did you ever receive a
harsher or more lenient
punishment because you
are a boy or a girl?
+ Challenging gender social norms;
Bronies
+ Key differences between Sex and
Gender
◼ Sometimes
in our society, we
wrongly use the terms sex and
gender interchangeably.
◼ But
remember they are two
completely different concepts
and should be treated as such.
◼ Transgender
is gender identity
that differs from the sex given
assigned to the person at birth.
+ Defining sexuality
◼ Sexuality refers to
desire, sexual
preference, sexual
identity, and
behavior.
+ The complexity of sex, gender and
sexuality
+
Sex…not as straightforward as we think
◼ Many
believe that there are only two
sexes — male and female — and that all
people fall into one group or the other.
◼ But
we might need definition of sex that
goes beyond these two categories.
◼ About
1 babies in 2,000 – 3,000 are born
intersex, which means having an
abnormal chromosomal makeup and
mixed/ indeterminate male and female
sex characteristics.
◼ This term
can overlap, but is different
from transgender
+ Intersex people
1st wave
2nd wave
3rd wave
+ What is Feminism?
▪Feminism
is an intellectual, consciousness-raising movement based on the idea that
women and men should be accorded equal opportunities and respect.
▪Feminism seeks to get people to understand that gender is an organizing principle of life.
▪Gender structures social relations on unequal ground, and thus power is fundamentally at
play when we talk about gender differences.
Gender
and
the
Structural
Functionalist
+
Approach
Assumes that gender differences exist to
fulfill necessary functions in society
◼ Parson’s Sex Role Theory suggests that
men and women are breadwinners and
wives/mothers, respectively, because
the nuclear family is the ideal
arrangement in modern societies.
◼ What do you think about this theory?
◼ This theory doesn’t allow for the
possibility that other structures could
fulfill the same function or for the fact
that structures change throughout
history
◼
+ Does Parson’s “Sex Role” theory apply in
modern society?
+ Psychoanalytic Theory
Focuses on individualistic
Are we really hard wired this way?
explanations for gender differences
as opposed to societal ones.
◼ Argues that natural, biological
differences between men and
women that dictate how they
behave.
◼ Relates to the biological
determinism arguments we looked
at earlier and the nature vs.
nurture debate
◼ Mostly discredited by sociologists
who say socialization is an important
part of gendered behavior.
◼
+ Conflict Theory
◼ Conflict
theories argue that
patriarchal capitalists benefit
through systems that
subordinate women.
◼ Men
stand to lose a great
deal if gender inequality
disappears.
◼ For example, they would
have to do more unpaid
work or pay to have their
homes kept up and children
cared for.
+ Conflict Theory
◼ Gender
inequality can
be found in all past and
present societies taking
the form of patriarchy, a
nearly universal system
involving the
subordination of
femininity to
masculinity.
◼ Hegemonic masculinity
is where men are
dominant and privileged
– but this is invisible to
most.
+
+ The Bechdel Test
+
+
+ What salary would stay at home parents
make if they were paid?
+ How do we learn “who does what”?
◼ Studies
show that gender
inequality is rampant in schools.
Remember: schools are an
important agent of socialization.
◼ Boys
and girls are treated
differently by teachers, and there
are different expectations for their
behavior and performance.
◼ The
textbooks and other materials
used in schools often reinforce
gender stereotypes.
How might we explain this paradox:
Women get higher levels of education
But still don’t earn the same as men…
+ What is the Glass Ceiling?
What is the glass escalator?
+ Gender Inequality in the Workplace
◼ Women
still face many
challenges in the
working world today,
including:
◼ Unequal pay
◼ Sexual harassment and
sexism
◼ Tracking to certain
kinds of jobs
◼ The “feminization” of
jobs or “pink collar”
occupations
+ Other explanations for unequal gender
earnings…?
+
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